Case Study: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe achieves scalable, high-performance remote access and 30% capital savings with Nutanix Complete Cluster

Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe Solves Remote Access Performance Challenges with Nutanix Complete Cluster

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, a global law firm with 23 offices, faced mounting IT complexity and performance problems as it expanded: multiple server and SAN vendors, disk contention from growing virtual workloads, and a need to support spiking remote-access demand (Citrix XenApp) without massively overprovisioning storage or relying on specialized server/storage teams.

Orrick deployed a 4‑node Nutanix Complete Cluster (converged compute and storage with Fusion‑io ioMemory, SATA drives and VMware) to localize I/O and enable auto‑tiering. The solution exceeded required IOPS, supported up to 1,000 simultaneous users in a disaster scenario, cut provisioning time for dev/test from days to hours, reduced management overhead, and delivered over 30% capital expense savings plus ongoing datacenter footprint and power reductions while enabling simple scale‑out expansion.

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Jeremy Wood

Senior Systems Engineer, Orrick